NewPages Guide to
Indie Bookstores in Pennsylvania

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We are an independent full service book store (both retail and wholesale) and cafe. Personalized professional service is our focus. Finding whatever book you seek—or at the very least, its status—is our specialty. Let us help with your literary needs!

Gently Used Books is located in the Douglassville Shopping Center in Douglassville, PA. We have over 100,000 books! In addition to our store, we also ship books anywhere in the USA! Visit our website for more details and valuable coupons!

Let's Play Books! is a small children's bookstore with books and some toys/games for ages infant through Young Adult. We may not have every book, but we do have a selection of hand picked titles and can always help you find the right book. We also offer a ton of programs and events: author visits, story times, play/game times, art/activities, and general silliness.

Now and Then Books is a bookstore featuring gently used and collectible books. We are located at 56 South 4th Street, (Corner of 4th and Broad St.) Emmaus, Pennsylvania. We sell used fiction of all flavors, including science fiction & fantasy, horror, mysteries & thrillers, children's & young adult, romance, contemporary fiction & literature, mass-market paperbacks, trade paperbacks, hardcovers, audiobooks, and collectibles. We also carry a small selection of new books and a variety of gift items for booklovers.

Northwest PA's biggest used book, comic book, and gaming store!

Werner Books is a new and used bookstore. We also offer a paperback exchange program that allows you to bring in your previously read paperbacks and earn credit towards your next purchase of used books.

We are a history bookstore in historic downtown Gettysburg. We specialize in military history.

We are a locally owned family business. Please stop in to see us for some great deals on books and more. In addition to new releases and best sellers, we have a huge selection of new bargain books that are ticketed at 40% to 80% off list price.

All of our books are donated by the community and the proceeds support the Kennett Area Senior Center.

Located in downtown Kutztown, Firefly Bookstore is an independently-owned and operated new and used bookstore. We carry a great selection of titles including large sections of children's books, general fiction, sci-fi, religion & metaphysics, cooking, history and biography. 

Opened in 2002, Character Development is a brick & mortar bookstore featuring children’s books for babies through young adults. We offer all genres of fiction and nonfiction with an emphasis on education, the arts, science, nature, and people, places & cultures. We also have a wide range of toys and educational items that complement our books and foster a child’s desire to read, play, explore, imagine, and create, while also promoting a lifelong reverence for people, animals, and the environment.

A general interest bookstore with a forward-thinking attitude, smart selection, and a warm, inviting atmosphere.

Bindlestiff Books is a volunteer-run neighborhood bookstore in West Philadelphia, with a carefully selected array of new and discounted (but still new) books. We have children’s books, literary fiction, graphic novels, art, cookbooks, history, labor studies, politics, and much more. We’re at 4530 Baltimore Avenue, Philadelphia PA 19143, just two blocks from Clark Park.

Book Corner was established in 1991 as a program of the Friends of the Free Library of Philadelphia, an independent not-for-profit organization whose mission is to advocate for library services for city residents in every neighborhood. We offer an eclectic selection of new, rare, out-of-print, and quality used, publicly donated books.

One of Philly's oldest indie bookstores, we have been selling books with a special emphasis on scholarly titles since 1962. Our knowledgeable staff will help you find the book you want. If we don't have it in stock, we will be happy to order it for you!

Manayunk's neighborhood bookshop selling new, used, and weird books.

Ulises is a bookshop and curatorial platform dedicated to artists' books and independent art publications.

Acclaimed Pittsburgh bookstore with storied past seeks full- and part-time readers for an enduring relationship with books. Optional world and time travel. Curiosity, diversity, and humor recommended. Experience with words preferred but not required. Be prepared to lose yourself in our pages. Start immediately.

Nine Stories is a new and used bookstore in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Rickert & Beagle Books is a strangely perfect used and new bookstore in Pittsburgh, PA. Founded by Chris Rickert and named for her and her friend Peter S Beagle, author of The Last Unicorn and Summerlong.

New and used books in Bloomfield.

Come, browse, relax, enjoy our wide variety of books. Our shelves are organized and you'll appreciate our pricing policy. We also buy, sell, trade CDs & DVDs.

Main Point Books is a locally owned, independent bookstore, run by people who care about what you read. We have books for everyone in the family and a knowledgeable staff that can help you find the perfect gift. Stop by and check us out.

2nd Reading benefits the local Senior Center. It's a great place to find affordable, used books, especially fiction and classics.

We are one of two secondhand bookstores operated by the West Chester Senior Center. Our stock consists of donated books from the community, and all sales benefit senior citizens in the West Chester community.